The first thing I do everywhere January 1 is look at the Washington Post Style Section's INs and OUTs for the new year. This year, I had to wait because January 1 comes earlier in Vietnam and I was in Tam Dao, away from my computer and newspapers.

Just a few months ago I was a senior at Dartmouth College. Like the majority of my peers, I was stressed about my post-college plans. I applied for all sorts of communications, consulting, new media, and teaching jobs in a disorganized frenzy. I even considered posting my resume on...

When a friend asked me to be a judge for the 63rd annual Woodsmen Meet at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, I could not say no. I thought it would be interesting to see who these people were who competed in such events as log rolling, fire building, sawing,...

This whole idea of dating only one person at a time seems to come so naturally to everyone in my generation except for me. The normal "how we met and started dating" for a college student goes like this:

We made eyes at a party and started talking. We...

Here are some Ins and Outs for the New Year. Even though the economic downturn and war in the middle east are on our radars right now, I believe that this year will be a good one for you, the nation, and the world.

Just don't be caught in...

The first time I ever heard about investment banking was when, while in high school, I read I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe. I found the novel's portrayal of college life shocking and terrifying and swore I would never go to college. I could not believe the way people...

Clothing stores that are selling vintage and reworked clothes are right on target. In this era of economic uncertainty and growing environmental consciousness, no one wants to be caught with new clothes.

Urban Outfitters has a growing part of their store dedicated to "Urban Renewal" -- a line of...

When I started to collect the state quarters at age 12 in 1999, my parents did not think I would complete the fifty-state quarter collection. They thought that because I was always excited by new trends and ideas, I would lose interest in collecting state quarters much like I had...

Russia invaded Georgia? Really? That seems more like something I read in history class than something that should be all over newspapers and blogs right now. Considering that I was just two years old when Francis Fukuyama published the essay "The End of History," in which he proclaimed that...

Transplanting myself to San Francisco for an internship this spring and then to New York this summer seemed natural. If I had been more thoughtful, I might have realized that thinking I could just move to two different cities for ten weeks each was kind of crazy, but luckily...

I know I am not a hipster. I have spent the spring in San Francisco and the summer in Manhattan, two hipster hotspots. I shop at American Apparel, have an Apple computer, avoid Starbucks and other corporate conglomerate coffee, smoothie, and frozen yogurt places, and consider myself "unique," but I...

"I can definitely taste the bacon in this chocolate," said some guy sitting in the row behind me. I wondered if he was eating bacon-infused chocolate just to be adventurous, sort of like Harry Potter jellybeans, or if the strange chocolate was in honor of Kevin Bacon. We were, after...

When NPR journalist and historian Juan Williams comes to your classroom to answer questions, what do you ask? The class was my History senior seminar, The Ghetto from Venice to Harlem, and Williams was visiting Dartmouth as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day events. However, our professor prefaced...

Hanover, New Hampshire - January 8, 2008 This morning was the earliest I have awakened since I have been a student at Dartmouth College. When my alarm clock went off at _:__ I was still groggy. It was cold and dark outside. I rolled out of bed and put on...